[Debian-eeepc-devel] Changed boot graphics resolution due to KMS

[Santi Béjar]

On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 12:23 AM, David L. Johnson
<david.johnson at lehigh.edu> wrote:
> Santi Béjar wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 5:09 PM, Paul Menzel
>> <paulepanter at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> Dear Hans,
>>>
>>>
>>> Am Sonntag, den 21.02.2010, 16:54 +0100 schrieb Hans-J. Ullrich:
>>>>
>>>> suddenly at boot sequence my eeepc 1005 HA is starting in 800x600 mode,
>>>> although I did not add any params like vga=791 or similar to grub.
>>>>
>>>> Besides it is ok that way, just a question: When and how did you this
>>>> change
>>>> this??? I just would like to know, what happened.
>>>
>>> I guess KMS (kernel mode setting) got somehow enabled on your system.
>>> But without knowing what packages got upgraded I cannot say more.
>>>
>>
>> I guess it is xserver-xorg-video-intel:
>>
>> $ cat /etc/modprobe.d/i915-kms.conf
>> options i915 modeset=1
>
> I have this problem on my desktop machine, and it's annoying for me since it
> also puts the text too far to the left, so the first few characters of each
> line are not visible.  On my eeepc the only thing that happens along those
> lines is that the font changes, but the mode of the screen does not seem to
> change.
>
> At any rate, changing that file to  ...=0  does nothing.

You have to regenerate the initrd (with update-initramfs + needed
flags) as this file is copied there.

HTH,
Santi